Woman

A woman is a femalehuman. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "women's rights". "Woman" may also refer to a person's gender identity. Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. In the context of gender identity, transgender people who are biologically determined to be male and identify as women cannot give birth. Some intersex people who identify as women cannot give birth due to either sterility or inheriting one or more Y chromosomes. In extremely rare cases, people who have Swyer syndrome can give birth with medical assistance. Throughout history women have assumed or been assigned various social roles.

Etymology

The spelling of woman in English has progressed over the past millennium from wīfmann to wīmmann to wumman, and finally, the modern spelling woman. In Old English, wīfmann meant "female human", whereas wēr meant "male human". Mann or monn had a gender-neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "person" or "someone"; however, subsequent to the Norman Conquest, man began to be used more in reference to "male human", and by the late 13th century had begun to eclipse usage of the older term wēr. The medial labial consonants f and m in wīfmann coalesced into the modern form "woman", while the initial element, which meant "female", underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife"). It is a popular misconception that the term "woman" is etymologically connected with "womb", which is from a separate Old English word, wambe meaning "stomach" (of male or female; modern German retains the colloquial term "Wampe" from Middle High German for "potbelly"). Nevertheless, such a false derivation of "woman" has appeared in print.

Womankind (magazine)

Womankind is an ad-free newsstand women's magazine distributed throughout the UK, Australia, NZ, the US, and Canada. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that it had "an initial circulation of 20,000 and is aiming to find a broad demographic of smart women interested in big ideas about philosophy, sociology and psychology.". It is distributed in 3,000 news agents in Australia. Womankind was the best-selling item in the history of the Byron Bay Writers' Festival when it launched there in 2014 and is one of the world's few ad-free newsstand publications. It is produced by the team behind the world's most widely distributed philosophy magazine, New Philosopher, which launched in 2013 and is available in Australia, NZ, the US, Canada and the UK.

Ad-free

The ad-free format attracted commentary from media organisations: ArtsHub noted that it had climbed steadily to the top of women's magazines to compete with Marie Claire and Vogue and describes it as "disrupting the publishing industry as it feeds the souls of a broad demographic of smart women interested in big ideas about philosophy, sociology and psychology." Broadsheet describes it as "changing the concept of what a women's magazine is".

Womankind

I sing for love of womankind,I have one in my heart and mind,Low, my heart aches for her.My soul swims naked in her streams,And in her meadows lies to dream,Hay, what need to waken.Her breast blow blossom in my hands,Her eyes shine moons on secret lands,As through my clouds her raven thoughts go flying.Space nearly parts and nearly joins,Love's magic song moans through her loins,Well hay, the lead long sweets of loving.May she glow always in her sun,have nothing lost and nothing won,Oh, now what fear can chain her?Oh blessed is he who joys and grieves Who wears the coat the rainbow weaves Lo, around his body.

Woman

A woman is a femalehuman. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "women's rights". "Woman" may also refer to a person's gender identity. Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. In the context of gender identity, transgender people who are biologically determined to be male and identify as women cannot give birth. Some intersex people who identify as women cannot give birth due to either sterility or inheriting one or more Y chromosomes. In extremely rare cases, people who have Swyer syndrome can give birth with medical assistance. Throughout history women have assumed or been assigned various social roles.

Etymology

The spelling of woman in English has progressed over the past millennium from wīfmann to wīmmann to wumman, and finally, the modern spelling woman. In Old English, wīfmann meant "female human", whereas wēr meant "male human". Mann or monn had a gender-neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "person" or "someone"; however, subsequent to the Norman Conquest, man began to be used more in reference to "male human", and by the late 13th century had begun to eclipse usage of the older term wēr. The medial labial consonants f and m in wīfmann coalesced into the modern form "woman", while the initial element, which meant "female", underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife"). It is a popular misconception that the term "woman" is etymologically connected with "womb", which is from a separate Old English word, wambe meaning "stomach" (of male or female; modern German retains the colloquial term "Wampe" from Middle High German for "potbelly"). Nevertheless, such a false derivation of "woman" has appeared in print.

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